Valencia 0-3 Real Madrid: Valverde 28, Guler 36, Mbappe 75
And the Real Madrid horse canters on, hot on Barcelona’s heels. Jose Mourinho’s side have now made it eight wins all competitions with a 3-0 cleaning of Valencia.
Madrid all but sealed victory in the first half after Federico Valverde and Arda Guler put them 2-0 up, before Kylian Mbappe eventually capped the win with a goal 15 minutes from time.
It was his 13th league goal of the season and his seventh on the bounce. A late red card to Jose Gaya only made Valencia’s night even worse.
There was very little resistance from the relegation-threatened hosts at the Mestalla as Madrid took over very early on. Valverde opened the scoring in the 28th minute after Mbappe won a free kick. The ball fell to the Uruguayan, who struck a low shot into the bottom corner from outside the penalty area.
Then Mourinho’s men doubled their lead eight minutes later. Jude Bellingham moved into the Valencia box and his cross found Guler, who finished with a first-time effort to all but assure his side of a win. Valencia have shown little to no fight all season and even after going behind here they remained on the back foot.
Madrid continued to create chances and Valencia goalkeeper Stole Dimitrievski had to make a save to deny Mbappe. But the France forward soon got on the scoresheet. After a fine ball from Guler over the Valencia defence, Mbappe raced onto it before rounding Dimitrievski to score.
